Improvement in the manufacture of gloves



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UNITED STATES PATENT CnErcEA FRIEDERICH STADTMAN, OF EVANSVILLE, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 149,260, dated March 31, 1874; application filed March 1, 1873.

To all whom it may concern lBe it known that I, FRIEDEEIGE STADTMAN, of Evansville, Vanderburg county, Indiana, have invented certain Improvements in Gloves, of which the following is a speciiication:

'Ihe nature of my invention relates to an improvement in the manufacture of gloves; and it consists in forming the hand of the glove from a single piece of material, which is doubled or folded over and then passed under a sewing-machine, the seam of stitches formed after a pattern, beginning at the point or tip of the first iinger and then ruiming up and down between each finger, so as to leave a slight space between the two lines of stitches, and then up the outside of the hand. The fingers are then cut loose from each other by cutting in between the two lines of stitches, and the glove then put upon a suitable block or stretcher and blocked.

The accompanying drawings represent my invention.

Iiirst take a piece of the material out of which the glove is to be made, and roughly cut out a blank pattern, a, double the width of the glove, through which is cut an opening, b, for the thumb. This pattern is then doubled or folded over upon itself, as shown in Fig. 2, and passed under a sewingmachine, anda row of stitches sewed, according to a pattern, from the end of the rst nger at c, up and down in between the fingers, leaving a slight space between the rows, and up the side of the hand to the wrist at d. Vith a pair of shears, or other cutting device, the lingers are then cut loose from each other by cutting down in between the double row of stitches, the rough edges trimmed away, the thumb inserted, and the glove then put upon a block or stretcher and blocked.

By this manner of making gloves, the side pieces in the fingers are entirely dispensed with, and the glove made in a single piece; but a single seam is made in the side of the fingers, and all the work upon the whole glove can be done as readily by an apprentice as by an experienced glove-maker.

hen I make use of the term glove made in a single piece,77 I refer to the hand of thc glove alone, as the thumb is made separately and then added to the hand.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new in the manufacture of gloves 1s- First, forming a blank for the handpiece out of single material, then sewing upon the same in double seams, according to a pattern, to form the fingers, which are afterward separated by simply cutting away the material between them, substantially in the manner described, and for the purpose set forth.

En; sTADTMAN.

Vitnesses ALEX. TLTTMAN, LoUIs EBERTs. 

